Hi folks! I would be happy to receive some comments on pros & cons of different development boards for MPC85xx cause I'm in the process of selecting one. The final design will be using MPC8560 to implement a 1 Gbps Ethernet card for a router. ATM support will be needed later on. The development environment includes a Linux PC and Abatron BDI2000 emulator.
Here are the boards that I am aware of: 1) MPC8560ADS by Motorola 2) CW8540DSEVAL by Motorola 3) SBC8560 by Windriver 4) Silicon Tx GP3 8560 5) MPC8540 RDK by GDATech Are these boards all there is? I am under the impression that 1, 2, 4 and 5 (but not 3) come with a Linux BSP included? Is this correct? Being the lazy person that I am, I'm trying to minimize the work to get Linux up and running on the board. I wonder which board/package gives me least headache? Are there any pitfalls that I should know about? Let us assume that the final product will not be based on a commercial Embedded Linux distro, but a custom 2.6 kernel with busybox & uclibc. Should that effect the choice in any way? Forgive me if the questions seem a bit foolish. The bottom line is that I have not used any kind of development boards in the past and I would like to receive some insight on which one of the above to choose. Cheers, Mikko ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
